Lu Zhang just lost a good portion of her stack, as she check-called on three streets from the big blind, only to find out her opponent made 2-pairs on the board. Sheraz raised to 350,000 preflop, then bet 400,000, 500,000 and 700,000 respectively, to table for eights-up. Lu mucked her hand, leaving her with just a little over 2,000,000.

We’re on a short break here as the TDs are racing off the T5,000 chips. Sheraz has regained the lead in this heads-up battle, as he has chipped up to 6,600,000, while Lu has dropped to 4,475,000.

Play resumes in level 32 momentarily, where the blinds will be 75,000 / 150,000.

Two big hands have recently developed here on this final table, and one nearly cancelled the other in terms of chip displacements.

On the first hand, Lu fired a river-bet of 710,000 into a 1,000,000 pot when she made a flush with , and Sheraz called with for a full house on a board.

On the next hand, she 4bet shoved for 2,400,000 preflop with , and doubled up versus the of Sheraz on a board.

She won a few more pots and is now only 75,000 behind in chips, not even a full big blind!

Play has been quite slow here in the heads-up confrontation between Lu Zhang and Sheraz Nasir, but after Sheraz took the early lead, Lu put her game face on and grinded it back to nearly even. She now holds 5,315,000 chips, just a little behind the 5,770,000 Sheraz, but with the blinds at 50,000 / 100,000, it’s very much anyone’s game.

After only 4 hours of play at the official 6-handed final table, play in the partypoker.net WPT Canadian Spring Championship has reached just 2 players remaining – Heads up!

The two players who have survived to this point are also the two players who have been the most active during this final table: Sheraz Nasir and Lu Zhang. Sheraz starts this phase of the tournament with 5.825M while Lu is just a shade behind with 5.260M in chips.

There’s still a lot to play for, as first place takes home $237,390.00 plus the Championship Belt, the winner’s name on the WPT Champion’s Cup, and the bonus entry in the WPT World Championship! Second place, on the other hand, takes home $166,402.00

The players are on a short break while tournament and WPT staff prepare for heads up play.

Good luck to both of the players!

Below are the updated chip counts shortly after the start of level 28:

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Name,Seat,Chips
Levi Stevens,Seat 2,”1,015,000″
Sheraz Nasir,Seat 5,”6,085,000″
Lu Zhang,Seat 6,”3,985,000″
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In a battle of the blinds, we saw Levi Stevens all-in and at risk versus Sheraz Nasir.

Levi:

Sheraz:

Levi paired an ace on the board to win a pot of roughly 1,400,000, keeping this final table at 3 players.